Dax Davis has the most vivid memory from his childhood of watching his parents put the needle on a record and somehow, magically, music started playing from their home stereo. As he looks back on his DJ career, he can point to that moment as the beginning of his fascination with music. But the signs to become a DJ didn’t stop there. He had two cousins who were already DJing. He was still in grade school and the seeds were being planted. Then he started listening to the mix shows on 92 KTU, WBLS with the great Frankie Crocker and the advent of KISSFM. He listened so intently that he actually started predicting what song would be next, and he was right more often than he was wrong. DJs like The Latin Rascals, Shep Pettibone, Tony Humphries, Red Alert and Chuck Chillout became heroes to young Dax and he just knew he had to follow in their footsteps. He started spinning at a local record store where he used to purchase his twelve inches from. Then he started doing house parties and roller rinks and eventually guest spots at venues on the Shore and in Newark and New York City as well. To this day he can be heard weekly on Global House Movements: Urban Deep Element, where his group The Housing Projekt has hosted a show for over ten years now. You can check them out on Mixcloud be clicking here.
To this day, Dax’ favorite thing about DJing is putting songs together, mixing and creating musical moments, always looking to recreate the feeling that he used to get listening to those epic DJ’s back in the day. In fact, when we asked him what his favorite type of party to DJ is, he said, “One where I’m allowed to express myself freely via the music, where I’m entrusted to create and take listeners / dancers on a journey. Like I used to experience going to the clubs or on the mixshows over the years.”
Besides DJing, Dax has degrees in audio engineering and computer science. He works during the week as an I.T Tech for the Ocean Township Board of Education. But on the weekends, he loves nothing more than playing great music and getting people dancing.
